2015-03-03T20:30:03ZPutin's Russia: Partner or Adversaryhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55020
Putin's Russia: Partner or Adversary
Beyrle, John
John Beyrle served as an American diplomat for more than three decades, in foreign postings and domestic assignments focused on Central and Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Russia. He was twice appointed ambassador: to Bulgaria (2005-08), and to Russia (2008-12). During the latter assignment he led the implementation of policies leading to improved U.S.-Russian relations, highlighted by the signing of the START nuclear arms reduction treaty, Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization, and liberalized visa formalities.
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2013-04-11T00:00:00ZBeyrle, JohnThe 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean Warhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55016
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade, the Corps Ethos, and the Korean War
Hammes, T. X.
T.X. Hammes is a senior research fellow with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University and a retired colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He has lectured widely and published on insurgency, irregular warfare, and future conflict.
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2012-11-29T00:00:00ZHammes, T. X.Winning Without War: Human Security Strategies for the 21st Centuryhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55008
Winning Without War: Human Security Strategies for the 21st Century
Cortright, David
The principles of nonviolence and human security offer realistic options for addressing contemporary security challenges and are superior to "old war" strategies for enhancing peace and promoting international cooperation. These principles are illustrated in an assessment of policy challenges and solutions in Iran, Afghanistan and the broader Middle East.
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2013-03-01T00:00:00ZCortright, DavidPerpetrators of Atrocity: A Work in Progresshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55007
Perpetrators of Atrocity: A Work in Progress
Stern, Jessica
"Perpetrators of Atrocity" is a project involving detailed interviews with individuals who have been indicted or convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). The goal of the study is to learn about the motivations and personal histories of those individuals who are currently standing trial, awaiting appeal, or serving sentences post-conviction.
The project is unique in that nobody has ever sought to interview individuals indicted by the ICTY or any other war crimes tribunal on such a large scale, and in a manner that concerns not their alleged crimes, but rather elements of their personal and family histories. The ultimate goal is the publication of a book about the interviews.
The project diverges from the majority of the current literature on the former Yugoslavia, most of centers on the political situation, both domestic and international, that led to the 1990s war and its aftermath. If the conflict is explored at a more individual level (itself a rare prospect), such exploration generally involves only victims, examining the crimes committed and their effects on those who suffered them.
"Perpetrators of Atrocity" centers instead on the alleged perpetrators of war crimes, focusing not on their crimes, but on their personal lives, with the aim of identifying personal-level risk factors that may have made them susceptible to recruitment and participation in the conflict. Jessica Stern, the study's principal investigator, is particularly interested in studying instances of "inter-generational transmission of trauma," and analyzing the long-term impacts of violence upon a person, their children, grandchildren, etc.
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2013-02-28T00:00:00ZStern, JessicaBehavioral Traits and Preferences for International Legal Cooperationhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55006
Behavioral Traits and Preferences for International Legal Cooperation
Hafner-Burton, Emilie
Emilie Hafner-Burton is associate professor and director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Her research examines ways to improve compliance with international law, protections for human rights, and a wide variety of other topics related to law, economics and regulation. She has published widely on these and other subjects.
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2013-02-27T00:00:00ZHafner-Burton, EmilieThe Power of Nightmares: Pathological Fear in U.S. Foreign Policyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55005
The Power of Nightmares: Pathological Fear in U.S. Foreign Policy
Fettweis, Christopher
Five decades ago, Karl Deutsch described what he called "Parkinson's Law for national security": A state's insecurity expands directly with its power. This certainly seems to apply to the United States, which is simultaneously the strongest country in the history of the world and the most insecure of today's great powers. The threats it has recently identified in the international system, from Iraq to Chavez to terrorism, are minor compared to what most states have had to confront throughout history.
As states grow in power they usually also become more materially secure; why, then, do they often seem to worry more, often about trivial matters? This talk will explore the political psychology of unipolarity, and discuss the importance of beliefs in explaining foreign policy behavior. Incorrect, baseless, pathological beliefs -- such as the common perception that the world is a dangerous place -- drive policy-making in counterproductive and often tragic directions, like onward toward Baghdad. Presumably better policy would result from more rational cost-benefit analyses.
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2013-02-21T00:00:00ZFettweis, ChristopherEntangled Bodies of Learning: Gender, Islam, and Secularism in the Modern Turkish Republichttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55004
Entangled Bodies of Learning: Gender, Islam, and Secularism in the Modern Turkish Republic
Hassan, Mona
Two striking educational trends with their roots in the early Turkish republic have fostered the unexpected emergence of Turkish state-sponsored female preachers. The social engineering of religious education and the coeducational principle of gender equality have facilitated an unprecedented feminization of religious higher education in Turkey and a related increase in professional opportunities for these female graduates.
Employed by Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs, female preachers seek in turn to educate the public through regular sermons, lectures, and consultations in their assigned districts across the country. Located at the fraught intersection of religion, politics, gender, education, and secularism, Turkey's state-sponsored female preachers aptly illustrate the elaborate complexities of secular modernity.
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2013-02-18T00:00:00ZHassan, MonaSword of the Spirit, Shield of Faithhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55003
Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith
Preston, Andrew
From the first colonists to the presidents of the 21st century, religion has always shaped America's relationships with other nations. During the presidency of George W. Bush, many Americans and others around the world viewed the entrance of religion into foreign policy discourse, especially with regard to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a new development.
Despite the official division between church and state, the presence of religion in American foreign policy has been a constant. Yet aside from leaders known to be personally religious, such as Bush, Jimmy Carter and Woodrow Wilson, few realize how central faith has always been to American governance and diplomacy–and indeed to the idea of America itself.
Based on his recent book, Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith, Preston's lecture will trace in broad outline the historical relationship between religion and American foreign relations, and use two case studies by way of example.
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2013-02-15T00:00:00ZPreston, AndrewDomestic Cultural Diplomacy and Soviet State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold Warhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55002
Domestic Cultural Diplomacy and Soviet State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Cold War
Tsipursky, Gleb
Gleb Tsipursky is assistant professor of history at The Ohio State University. His research is in the field of modern Russian and Eurasian history, with a particular interest in socialist modernity, youth, consumption, popular culture, emotions, the Cold War, crime, violence, and social controls.
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2013-02-11T00:00:00ZTsipursky, GlebCounterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaedahttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55001
Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda
Schmitt, Eric; Shanker, Thomas
Eric Schmitt is a terrorism correspondent for The New York Times. He is co-author of Counterstrike: the Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011). Schmitt has twice been a member of The Times reporting teams that were awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Thomas Shanker is a Pentagon correspondent for The New York Times. He is co-author, with Eric Schmitt, of Counterstrike: the Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda (Times Books/Henry Holt, 2011), and routinely spends time embedded with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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2013-02-07T00:00:00ZSchmitt, EricShanker, ThomasEveryday Modernity, Urban Space and Citizenship: Public Beaches in Early Republican Istanbulhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/55000
Everyday Modernity, Urban Space and Citizenship: Public Beaches in Early Republican Istanbul
Bozdogan, Sibel
After more than a decade of relative insignificance in the shadow of the new capital Ankara, the first efforts to renew Istanbul's crumbling urban infrastructure and to transform the city from an oriental, imperial capital to a modern republican city took off in the 1930s, primarily through the work of the French urban planner Henri Prost who worked for Istanbul Municipality between 1936 and 1951.
In this period, urban planning became an integral dimension of the republican project of re-making the city into a theater of modern life, and its people, into modern citizens. As the most visible forms of displaying healthy bodies (especially women's bodies) in public space, promenading, swimming and dancing came to be seen as quintessentially "modern" activities. Consequently parks, beaches and gazinos (music halls) became the paradigmatic spaces of modernity representing the "opening up" of a traditional Muslim society along secular western models of mixed-gender recreation while evoking the prevailing cult of body, youth and health that had captured Europe's imagination in the interwar period.
Within this broader historical context, this lecture focuses on the emergence of beaches along Istanbul's Bosporus and Marmara shores, presenting them as symbolically charged urban sites where republican notions of modernity, secularization and citizenship acquired spatial expression. Rather than reading them as unequivocal expressions of a top-down state ideology however, they will be discussed as ambivalent sites where the official republican project of modernity and "social engineering" from above came in contact with the everyday lives of ordinary Istanbulites from below.
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2013-02-04T00:00:00ZBozdogan, SibelNational Security Checks and Balanceshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54999
National Security Checks and Balances
Goldsmith, Jack
Jack Goldsmith is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and writes about national security law, presidential power, cyber-security, international law, internet law, foreign relations law, and conflict of laws.
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2013-01-28T00:00:00ZGoldsmith, JackThe Family Channel: Migrant Remittances and Government Financehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54998
The Family Channel: Migrant Remittances and Government Finance
Singer, David
This paper argues that migrant remittances can ease government access to capital, generate tax revenue through household consumption, and ultimately allow governments to expand their size. The paper offers three empirical tests. First, using data for 76 developing countries from 1980 to 2007, I find that remittance inflows are associated with greater total government expenditures, whereas other forms of economic integration — especially trade—reflect the conventional view of the constraining influence of global markets. I then explore the possible causal mechanisms behind these results. In the second analysis, I find that remittances are associated with greater tax revenue due to the link between remittances, household consumption, and consumption taxes. These results are robust to using an instrumental variable approach based on exogenous variation in the wealth of migrant host countries. The third test explores the determinants of sovereign borrowing costs in emerging markets and finds that remittances are associated with lower sovereign spreads. The results suggest that private household financial flows can provide financial resources and ease access to credit to governments in developing countries.
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2013-01-25T00:00:00ZSinger, DavidChoosing Terror: Rebels' Use of Terrorism in Civil Warshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54997
Choosing Terror: Rebels' Use of Terrorism in Civil Wars
Fortna, Page
Page Fortna is professor of political science at Columbia University and a member of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. Her research focuses on the durability of peace in the aftermath of both civil and interstate wars, war termination, and terrorism.
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2013-01-10T00:00:00ZFortna, PageBeneath Compliance: The Limits of Transnational Private Regulationhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54996
Beneath Compliance: The Limits of Transnational Private Regulation
Bartley, Timothy
Global industries are increasingly littered with standards — claiming to promote fair labor conditions, sustainability, community development, and environmental justice around the world. In the past two decades, many NGOs and companies have sought to "push" such standards through global supply chains and use third-party certification to verify compliance.
Many scholars have argued that these activities amount to a new way of regulating globalization — one that does not rely on the mobilization or coordination of unwilling or incapacitated states and which, if appropriately structured, can impose meaningful discipline in otherwise unruly industries. But how are these systems of "transnational private regulation" actually put into practice in particular places? To what extent can they actually bypass the state and provide meaningful, alternative sets of rules and enforcement practices?
To address these questions, this project compares two fields of transnational private regulation—standards for fair labor and sustainable forestry — and their implementation in two countries — Indonesia and China. In this presentation, I will use the case of sustainable forestry certification in Indonesia to consider why, although a program like the Forest Stewardship Council has far more integrity than initiatives focused on fair labor standards, its influence in the crucial Indonesian setting has been quite circumscribed.
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2013-03-26T00:00:00ZBartley, TimothyAmerica Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Centuryhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54995
America Abroad: The United States' Global Role in the 21st Century
Wohlforth, William
William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He has research interests in international relations theory, international security, Russian foreign policy, and the Cold War.
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2013-03-22T00:00:00ZWohlforth, WilliamWhy the Korean War was the Most Important and Enduring Cold War Conflict: Contemporary Lessonshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54994
Why the Korean War was the Most Important and Enduring Cold War Conflict: Contemporary Lessons
Suri, Jeremi
This talk will examine the legacy of the Korean War on the post-1945 international system. The changes the war elicited continue to characterize contemporary international relations. First, the Korean War militarized foreign policy-making, replacing the diplomatic efforts of the late 1940s with a new emphasis on limited war intervention-capabilities as a key measure of international power. Second, the conflict hardened animosities on the Korean peninsula and across East Asia. The region remains frozen in these hostilities. Third, and perhaps most important, the Korean War created a vision of "naked aggression" and "liberation" warfare that would dominate American thinking about international conflict thereafter. This lecture will explore these themes, with a focus on new historical scholarship.
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2013-03-08T00:00:00ZSuri, JeremiA House Divided: Threat Perception, Regime Factionalism and Repression in Africahttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54993
A House Divided: Threat Perception, Regime Factionalism and Repression in Africa
Salehyan, Idean; Hendrix, Cullen
Why do governments in Africa repress certain contentious challenges but not others? This study adopts a blended approach to studying repression by taking seriously both the characteristics of contentious events as well as nature of the regime in power.
We argue that the more threatening a movement is — as measured by the use of violence, opposition demands, and targets — the more likely the state is to use repressive force. However, we relax the assumption that the state is a unitary actor, and allow for the preferences of state leaders and of the security forces to diverge when it comes to carrying out repressive policies.
Countries with a history of factionalism in their security forces face an additional challenge: orders to crack down on protesters, rioters, strikers, etc., may not be followed or could even cause police and military forces to defect. We argue this potential is greatest when the challenge is has ethnoreligious aims.
We test these propositions using the Social Conflict in Africa Database, and find significant support for our core theoretical conjecture: regimes with a history of past military factionalism are generally less likely to use repression. Such regimes are especially unwilling to repress ethnoreligiously based, ascriptive movements.
These results are robust to several estimators that address the hierarchical nature of the event data. These findings demonstrate the benefits of a blended, event-based approach to studying state repression.
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2013-03-04T00:00:00ZSalehyan, IdeanHendrix, CullenTurkey Since 1980http://hdl.handle.net/1811/54992
Turkey Since 1980
Pamuk, Şevket; Arat, Yeşim
Şevket Pamuk is professor of economics and economic history at Boğaziçi (Bosphorus) University in Istanbul, and professor and chair in contemporary Turkish studies at London School of Economics and Political Science. He has published many books and articles on the economic history of modern Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Middle East and Europe. He is a past president of European Historical Economics Society and the current president of Asian Historical Economics Society. He is also co-editor of European Review of Economic History. Yeşim Arat is professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Boğaziçi University (Bosphorus) in Istanbul. She has worked on questions of women's political participation and democratization in Turkey. Her scholarly work includes her books, Patriarchal Paradox: Women Politicians in Turkey; Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics; Violence Against Women in Turkey, with Ayşe Gül Altınay; as well as numerous articles in edited volumes and professional journals. She was the provost of her university from 2008 to 2012 and is a member of the Science Academy, Turkey.
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2013-04-04T00:00:00ZPamuk, ŞevketArat, YeşimThe Challenge of Political Compromisehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54991
The Challenge of Political Compromise
Thompson, Dennis
Dennis F. Thompson is professor of public policy and Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also founding director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics.
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2013-04-02T00:00:00ZThompson, DennisGoverning Securityhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54990
Governing Security
Cuéllar, Mariano-Florentino
In "Governing Security," Cuéllar takes up a complex and timely question at the intersection of law and society. Who has the power to design federal agencies, and who sets priorities when deciding on the most urgent security problems facing our country? Governing Security explores how these two questions are connected by investigating the hidden origins of two of the most powerful agencies in the federal government.
Even after Franklin Roosevelt failed in his drive to reorganize federal courts during his second term and faced the prospect of a costly war, he kept on pressing for authority to reorganize the executive branch and created a vast agency called the Federal Security Agency. Six decades later, the Bush Administration pursued one of the largest reorganizations in modern history after initially opposing the creation of a Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the September 11 attacks. This book investigates the story of these two agencies in order to illuminate the complex relationship between public law, executive organization, and the contested meaning of national security.
Using a mix of qualitative analysis of agency structure and budgets, doctrinal evaluation of legal developments, scrutiny of legislation and executive orders, and archival research, this work exposes the interplay between executive power and agency structure in shaping the nation’s security priorities. By analyzing these developments, the book shows how the impact of public law ultimately depends on how politicians go about security control of the vast agencies that implement statutes and regulations, and on how those agencies are in turn used to define the contested concept of security.
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2013-03-28T00:00:00ZCuéllar, Mariano-FlorentinoThe Great War and the Politics of National Security in Francehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54989
The Great War and the Politics of National Security in France
Jackson, Peter
The talk will be based on the forthcoming monograph "Beyond the Balance of Power: France and the politics of national security in the era of the First World War." The aim will be to reconsider the impact of World War I on contending conceptions of security in France. The argument will be that there were two general currents of thought on the question of security before 1914. The dominant current was traditional in character and based on long-standing assumptions about the balance of power and the need for exclusive alliances and strategic preponderance. The alternative conception was internationalist in inspiration and reflected the central role of law in French political culture. It aimed at achieving security through the creation of an international regime of public law backed up by the automatic use of collective force. The tremendous sacrifices demanded of the French nation during the Great War created political space for the internationalist alternative. After 1917 French national security policy was influenced in important respects by the internationalist approach to peace and security. This influence has been missed almost entirely by several generations of historians who have tended overwhelmingly to characterize French policy as inspired by the "realist" assumptions of power politics.
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2013-04-05T00:00:00ZJackson, PeterChina's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Examplehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54988
China's Fear of Contagion: Tiananmen Square and the Power of the European Example
Sarotte, Mary
The Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989 remains a taboo topic in the People's Republic of China (PRC); the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still detains participants and suppresses online, popular, and scholarly discussions of it. The twentieth anniversary of the end of the transatlantic Cold War, however, saw the release of new sources from high-level contacts between the CCP and foreign leaders. These new sources, combined with older ones, show the extent to which Chinese political leaders were obsessed with the democratic changes in Eastern Europe and were willing to take violent action to prevent similar events on their territory. This obsession has received mention from a few scholars, but until now it has played too small a role in the current understanding of Tiananmen. New evidence documents that one of the main motivations for the CCP in deploying the army in June 1989—on the same day as semi-free elections in Poland—was its desire to combat possible contagion from the events in Europe. These sources also show that the CCP knew it had little to fear from reprisals by the United States, which it predicted would take "no real countermeasures."
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2012-12-06T00:00:00ZSarotte, MarySupermajority Rule and Democracyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54987
Supermajority Rule and Democracy
Schwartzberg, Melissa
Melissa Schwartzberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. As a political theorist, her research centers on the historical origins and normative consequences of rules governing democratic decision-making. She also has special interests in ancient Greek institutions and political thought, and in modern political thought concerning institutional design, especially that of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jeremy Bentham.
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2012-11-30T00:00:00ZSchwartzberg, MelissaThe Irony of Global Economic Governance: The System Workedhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54986
The Irony of Global Economic Governance: The System Worked
Drezner, Daniel
Daniel W. Drezner is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a senior editor at The National Interest, and a contributing editor at Foreign Policy. He has been at the Fletcher School since the fall of 2006. Prior to Fletcher, he was an assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and then at the University of Chicago from 1999 to 2006. For the 1993-94 academic year, he was a Civic Education Project visiting lecturer in economics at Donetsk Technical University in the Republic of Ukraine.
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2012-11-30T00:00:00ZDrezner, DanielWorld Politics in the Age of Entropyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54985
World Politics in the Age of Entropy
Schweller, Randall
Randall Schweller is professor of political science at The Ohio State University and director of National Security Studies at the Mershon Center.
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2012-11-13T00:00:00ZSchweller, RandallMaking a Prisoner for War: Examining the Korean War Armistice from Behind and Beyond the Barbed-wire Fencehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54982
Making a Prisoner for War: Examining the Korean War Armistice from Behind and Beyond the Barbed-wire Fence
Kim, Monica
In light of 2013 being the 60th anniversary of the armistice signing, I turn our attention to the very controversy that prolonged the ceasefire negotiations at Panmunjom for 18 straight months: POW repatriation. Although scholars have often dismissed the POW controversy as a footnote or a propaganda ploy, I will contend that the controversy, upon closer examination, reveals the limits of international laws of war in front of decolonization. From the vantage point of the largest United Nations Command POW camp on Koje Island, I will re-examine the workings and consequences of the armistice to suggest ways for understanding the legacies of a war that has still not officially ended.
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2013-04-17T00:00:00ZKim, MonicaMaking Human Rights 'Sexy': Amnesty International's Campaign against Torture, 1968-1975http://hdl.handle.net/1811/54980
Making Human Rights 'Sexy': Amnesty International's Campaign against Torture, 1968-1975
Keys, Barbara
Amnesty International was formed in 1961 with a narrow mandate: to help prisoners of conscience around the world. Seven years later it added prevention of torture to its mandate. Though in some ways it was a natural expansion that reflected the fact that many political prisoners were mistreated, it was also clearly driven by Amnesty's media-centered methods. Because the media showed more interest in political prisoners when physical brutality was involved, Amnesty began to focus on such brutality. The new focus on torture, culminating in Amnesty's first-ever "special campaign," brought Amnesty a huge influx of new members and vastly increased media attention. As one internal report noted, torture was "sexy." Yet, as this talk explores, the ways Amnesty chose to frame the "torture problem" led the organization into a series of political choices that had fraught consequences for the broader human rights movement that was emerging at this time.
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2012-11-05T00:00:00ZKeys, BarbaraConstitutional Islam: Genealogies, Transmissions, and Meaningshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54979
Constitutional Islam: Genealogies, Transmissions, and Meanings
Stilt, Kristen
Kristen Stilt is professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law and an affiliated faculty member in the History Department. Her research interests are the historical development and practice of Islamic law as well as contemporary manifestations and applications of law that is presented as Islamic.
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2013-04-11T00:00:00ZStilt, KristenMilitary Effectivenesshttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54978
Military Effectiveness
Millett, Allan; Murray, Williamson
Allan R. Millett is director of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies and Stephen E. Ambrose Professor of History at the University of New Orleans since 2006, and the Raymond E. Mason Jr. Professor Emeritus of Military History at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the history of American military policy and 20th century wars and military institutions. Williamson Murray is a Minerva Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College and professor emeritus of history at The Ohio State University. He studies military and diplomatic history and is currently working on a number projects related to operational history of the Civil War, study of the Iran-Iraq War, and hybrid warfare.
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2012-11-02T00:00:00ZMillett, AllanMurray, WilliamsonUnleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypthttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54977
Unleashing the Beast: Animals, Energy, and the Economy of Labor in Ottoman Egypt
Mikhail, Alan
In the land-based agrarian world of early modern Ottoman Egypt, animal wealth, labor, and movement were the bases of social and economic life. Animals were the trucks, motors, cranes, heaters, and gas stations of this early modern society. Interspecies relations between humans and various classes of animals were, however, radically altered at the end of the 18th century by a combination of climatic, epidemiological, political, and economic processes. The new human-animal world that resulted was one in which livestock were no longer a central pillar of economic, social, and political life in Ottoman Egypt. This diminished role of animals led, in turn, to a radical restructuring of the rural world as it transitioned away from animal labor, energy, and motor power. Thus, as Egypt moved from being the most lucrative province of the Ottoman Empire to a 19th-century centralizing state, human-animal relations changed more fundamentally between 1770 and 1830 than they had for millennia before that. This talk traces this change at the turn of the 19th century to understand the political, social, ecological, and economic history of the Ottoman Empire through one of the most basic of all human relationships -- those with other animals.
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2013-04-08T00:00:00ZMikhail, AlanGeorge F. Kennan: An American Lifehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54976
George F. Kennan: An American Life
Gaddis, John
John Lewis Gaddis is Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. He is a noted historian of the Cold War and grand strategy, who has been hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times.
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2012-10-25T00:00:00ZGaddis, JohnAmerican Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, and the U.S. Presidential Electionhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54975
American Jews, Israelis, Palestinians, and the U.S. Presidential Election
Sylvan, Don
This interactive session will begin with some empirically based observations about internal Israeli politics, as well as a few about internal Palestinian politics. The majority of the talk will concentrate on preference patterns of American Jews in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, and the sometimes intense dialogue that has emerged as the campaign proceeds.
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2012-10-24T00:00:00ZSylvan, DonThe Wars We Remember: An Essay in Comparative Memory Workhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54974
The Wars We Remember: An Essay in Comparative Memory Work
Young, Nigel
Nigel Young is visiting distinguished scholar of peace studies at Earlham College. He has been active in transnational peace activity for more than 50 years, and has held several academic positions in sociology, politics, and peace studies at over a dozen universities and colleges worldwide, including as professor and director of peace studies at Colgate University (1984-2004), and as senior research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (1981-84).
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2012-10-23T00:00:00ZYoung, NigelLiberty and Compulsory Civil Religion in Rousseau's Social Contract, and Adam Smith's Alternativehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54973
Liberty and Compulsory Civil Religion in Rousseau's Social Contract, and Adam Smith's Alternative
Griswold, Charles
Charles Griswold is the Borden Parker Bowne Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. His research interests include ancient philosophy, moral and political philosophy, 18th century philosophy, history of ethics, philosophy, and literature.
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2012-10-19T00:00:00ZGriswold, CharlesThe Dokdo Islets: A Critical Issue between Korea and Japanhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54972
The Dokdo Islets: A Critical Issue between Korea and Japan
Kim, Byung-Ryull
Kim Byung-Ryull is professor of international relations at Korea National Defense University and a 2011-12 visiting scholar at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.
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2012-10-17T00:00:00ZKim, Byung-RyullWomen and Gender after the Arab Spring: Promises and Perils of Democratizationhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54971
Women and Gender after the Arab Spring: Promises and Perils of Democratization
Moghadam, Valentine
The Arab Spring is still unfolding, as is the direction of change, and outcomes may be different for violent and nonviolent uprisings. This presentation will focus on three early cases of the Arab Spring – Tunisia, Egypt, and Morocco – to discuss causes and likely outcomes, gender dynamics, and prospects for successful democratic transitions. A comparative and international perspective will highlight similarities and differences across the Arab cases and between the Arab Spring and other “democracy waves."
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2012-10-12T00:00:00ZMoghadam, ValentineThe Evolution of the Global Climate Regimehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54970
The Evolution of the Global Climate Regime
Thompson, Alexander
Alexander Thompson is associate professor of political science at The Ohio State University and co-director of the Globalization Speaker Series at the Mershon Center. He has research and teaching interests in international relations, with particular emphasis on international organizations, international political economy, and international environmental politics.
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2012-10-04T00:00:00ZThompson, AlexanderWhy Do We Still Have the Electoral College?http://hdl.handle.net/1811/54968
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Keyssar, Alexander
Alexander Keyssar is Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy in the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. An historian by training, he has specialized in the explanation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. His current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.
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2012-10-01T00:00:00ZKeyssar, AlexanderClimate Change, Disease, and the State: Lessons from Historyhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54967
Climate Change, Disease, and the State: Lessons from History
Price-Smith, Andrew
Andrew T. Price-Smith is director of the Energy, Environment and Security Program, director of the nascent Global Health Program, and associate professor of political science at Colorado College. He held previous appointments at both the Earth Institute and the School of International and Public Affairs of Columbia University, and at the University of South Florida. He also served as interim chair of environmental science at Colorado College from 2009-10. He specializes in analyses of the effects of disease, environmental change, and energy scarcity on the security of nations.
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2012-09-28T00:00:00ZPrice-Smith, AndrewSupernexus: The Power of Position in the New Global Architecturehttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54966
Supernexus: The Power of Position in the New Global Architecture
Legro, Jeffrey
Jeffrey W. Legro is vice provost for global affairs, professor of politics, and Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. In 2011, he was a Fulbright-Nehru senior researcher at the Institute for Defense and Strategic Analyses in New Delhi.
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2012-09-28T00:00:00ZLegro, JeffreyFreedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipationhttp://hdl.handle.net/1811/54964
Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation
Scott, Rebecca
Rebecca J. Scott is the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.Her most recent book, coauthored with Jean M. Hébrard, is Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard University Press, 2012), which traces the theme of the law in slavery and freedom through the examination of one family across five generations.
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2012-09-14T00:00:00ZScott, RebeccaIran: Is There a Case for War?http://hdl.handle.net/1811/54963
Iran: Is There a Case for War?
Herrmann, Richard; Murray, Williamson
Richard Herrmann is Social and Behavioral Sciences Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at The Ohio State University. He directed the Mershon Center for International Security Studies from 2002-10. Williamson Murray is a Minerva Fellow at the U.S. Naval War College and professor emeritus of history at The Ohio State University. He studies military and diplomatic history and is currently working on a number projects related to operational history of the Civil War, study of the Iran-Iraq War, and hybrid warfare.
The Ohio State University Mershon Center for International Security Studies
2012-09-18T00:00:00ZHerrmann, RichardMurray, Williamson